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FISH 406: Parasite Ecology FISH 406: Parasite Ecology Instructor: Professor Chelsea Wood office: 206-685-2163 [email protected] Course Outline Lectures: MWF, 12:30pm–1:20pm in FISH 107 Labs: Tuesdays, 1:30pm–4:20pm in FTR 125/129 Office hours: Wednesdays, 1:30pm–2:30pm in FISH 202B and by appointment Pre-requisites: BIOL 180 Credits: 4 credits + this course counts toward the UW Additional Writing (W) requirement Required readings: Foundations of Parasitology, Roberts and Janovy (used copies available from $20 on Amazon); additional reading material (including chapters of Karban and Huntzinger’s book, see below) available as pdfs through Canvas; for graduate students only (undergrads welcome but not required to read along) – Parasitism: The Ecology and Evolution of Intimate Interactions, Combes (used copies available from $8 on Amazon) Optional (but highly recommended) readings: Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer (used copies available from $8 on Amazon.com); Richard Karban and Mikaela Huntzinger’s book, How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook, will be an indispensable resource as you develop your research proposal. You are required to read Chapters 1, 2, and 6, and these will be provided as pdfs on Canvas. But I encourage you to read the entire book, available on Amazon for ~$5 used. Optional multimedia: Two podcasts – This Week in Parasitism (TWiP; www.microbeworld.org/podcasts/this-week-in-parasitism/archives) and selected episodes of RadioLab (www.radiolab.org/archive/) 2 Course Description Parasites are ubiquitous: no ecosystem exists without them, and among all of Earth’s species, parasites outnumber non-parasites. But because they are usually small and hidden within their hosts, parasites can be easy to overlook. This course will introduce students to these rarely studied creatures, which span the entire tree of life, occupy all of Earth’s habitats, and influence many ecological processes. Our material will survey all metazoan parasites, most protozoa, and some bacteria and viruses, addressing their distribution, ecology, and physiological effects on human and wildlife hosts. Because this is an ecology course, we will survey parasite diversity in light of evolutionary diversification. Phylogenetic relationships within and among groups will provide the framework for the course. Within this phylogenetic framework, the bulk of our time will be spent exploring general disease ecology theory through relatable case studies of individual taxa. We will explore fundamental principles of parasite populations and communities. We will investigate the effects of parasites on host populations (e.g., host population regulation), communities (e.g., parasite- mediated competition), and ecosystems (e.g., nutrient availability). We will strive to put parasites into a food-web context, assessing the impacts of parasites on food webs (e.g., connectance, nestedness, energy flow, biomass, food chain length) and of food webs on parasites (e.g., dilution effect hypothesis, biodiversity-begets-biodiversity hypothesis). Finally, we will use our accumulated knowledge to make predictions for how disease transmission might respond to human impacts like biodiversity loss, climate change, and urbanization and will evaluate the interventions available for wildlife and human disease control (e.g., vaccination, culling, environmental modification, biological control). Learning Goals By the end of the semester, I expect you will be able to: 1. recognize each of the major groups of parasites and describe their basic life cycles 2. analyze and critically evaluate graphical representations of data (from the scientific literature) and raw epidemiologic datasets (presented during lab sessions) 3. interpret, evaluate, and synthesize primary literature in parasite ecology (accomplished via writing assignment and “elevator pitch” presentation) 4. apply your knowledge of disease ecology to generate novel ideas for the management of wildlife diseases (accomplished via writing assignment) 5. critique your colleagues’ ideas respectfully yet substantively 6. communicate ideas about the ecology of disease effectively, in writing and speech 3 Evaluation Assessment Due Proportion of your final grade Exams Exam 1 29 Oct, 12:30p- 20% 2:30p Exam 2 (partially cumulative) 7 Dec, 12:30p- 20% 2:30p Term You are assigned a focal 16 Oct n/a project parasite/disease You pitch your ideas for 30 Oct 0% – this is to encourage you to be as managing the transmission of creative as possible! No ideas are too your assigned parasite far-fetched. You submit a first draft of your 6 Nov n/a 10-page term paper for peer review by a classmate Classmate provides peer 13 Nov n/a review of your draft You provide peer review of 13 Nov 10% – peer review makes the science classmate’s draft world go ‘round. Here, you get to practice providing constructive suggestions to colleagues. You revise and give me the 21 Nov 0% – your work on the term paper will second draft not be graded until you submit the final version. This should give you the opportunity to put together a stellar paper, and lets you experience the iterative process of scientific writing. I hand draft back to you with 28 Nov 0% feedback You give a 5-minute oral 4 Dec 10% presentation of your findings (an “Elevator Pitch”) You hand in your final draft (10 13 Dec 20% pages double-spaced) Partic- Lab notebook 4 Dec 10% – getting to know the parasites can ipation be daunting. Careful scientific illustrations that are well-annotated help you to see the similarities, differences, and relationships among taxa, helping you to remember them. In-class, in-lab, and online n/a 10% – see below for a detailed grading participation breakdown. 4 Grading Scale* LETTER PERCENT GPA NOTES A ≥95 4.0 A 94 3.9 A– 93 3.8 A– 92 3.7 A– 91 3.6 A– 90 3.5 B+ 89 3.4 B+ 88 3.3 B+ 87 3.2 B 86 3.1 B 85 3.0 B 84 2.9 B– 83 2.8 B– 82 2.7 B– 81 2.6 B– 80 2.5 C+ 79 2.4 C+ 78 2.3 C+ 77 2.2 C 76 2.1 C 75 2.0 C 74 1.9 C– 73 1.8 C– 72 1.7 C– 71 1.6 C– 70 1.5 D+ 69 1.4 D+ 68 1.3 D+ 67 1.2 D 66 1.1 D 65 1.0 D 64 0.9 D– 63 0.8 D– 62 0.7 Lowest passing grade E <62 0.0 Academic failure, no credit earned *Note that there will be no curve. 5 Exam Policy Exams are scheduled for 12:30pm–2:30pm on Monday, 29 October and Friday, 7 December. Note that the end time (2:30pm) is one hour and ten minutes past regularly scheduled class time (which normally ends at 1:20pm). If you have a conflict – do not worry! Talk to me ahead of time and we can schedule an alternative exam time for you. For unscheduled conflicts with exam times (e.g., medical emergency), make-ups will be available only if the emergency can be verified. If you miss an exam due to illness or other emergency, make sure that you or a friend contacts the instructor, Dr. Wood, by email at [email protected] within 24 hours of the exam. Documentation of illness will be required for any missed exam. To preserve the academic integrity of the course, the instructor reserves the right to alter the content and/or format of the original test in creating a make-up exam. Extra Credit There will be bonus questions on exams that will require you to think hard, synthesize your knowledge, and creatively generate hypotheses for patterns. These questions will draw heavily from the textbook and pdf readings and from content presented by Guest Speakers. Regrade Policy If you believe that an exam or assignment has been graded incorrectly, or that the grade entered is incorrect, you must contact me within one week of when the assignment was returned to you. Such a request must be submitted in writing (e-mail is fine) and must be accompanied by the original, unaltered assignment. Academic Integrity Students at the University of Washington are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic conduct, professional honesty, and personal integrity. Plagiarism, cheating, and other misconduct are serious violations of the University of Washington Student Conduct Code (WAC 478-120). I expect you to know and follow the university's policies on cheating and plagiarism. Any suspected cases of academic misconduct will be handled according to University of Washington regulations. For more information, see the University of Washington Community Standards and Student Conduct website. I don’t expect anyone in this class to engage in academic misconduct – parasite ecology is a window into a new and exciting world, and cheating robs the cheater of the opportunity to explore and know that world. But just in case, I will state up front my policy for addressing academic misconduct: if you are caught cheating, falsifying data, plagiarizing, collaborating on assignments in a manner that is prohibited, or committing any other kind of academic misconduct as defined in the Student Conduct Code, you will receive an automatic zero on the assignment and the case will be referred to the College of the Environment for a Student Conduct Process hearing. If you are caught twice, you will receive a zero in the course and the case will be referred for an additional hearing. 6 Posting of Grades You will be able to access your grades via Canvas. All graded material (exams and essays) will be returned promptly during scheduled class or lab times. If you find that there is a clerical error in a posted score, please contact me as soon as you notice the error. Exam scores will be posted no more than 10 days after the exam date.
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